posted January 20, 2009 11:56
Just to let you guys know, Snaggy and I have been glued to the TV watching the goings on in the US with the inauguration. It's pretty awesome. Posts: 1173 | Registered: Dec 1999
| IP: Logged

posted January 22, 2009 09:54
We watched it at work in the lunch room. It was pretty wonderful. Then I turned it on at home for DM to watch it in the repeats. I know she's only five, but it's history.

Then I had to rain on her parade. "Yes, mommy says you can be anything you want to be, but not president. You were born in Guatemala." So now she's back to her original choice Princess/Doctor/Ballerina.
Posts: 1355 | From: Osten Ard | Registered: Aug 2003
| IP: Logged

quote:Originally posted by Aditu: "Yes, mommy says you can be anything you want to be, but not president. You were born in Guatemala."

And WHAT if she wants to be president of Guatemala? After all, if Ingrid Betancourt could run for President of Colombia, surely Dora-Maria can access such a position? What kind of mother are you to tell her such lies just to break her hopes?

quote:Originally posted by Snaggy: Rant: That born in the USA rule is so stupid.

Yes, I mean imagine Ahnold as Prez

--------------------Evil AI at work.I am Swiss of Borg. Holes are irrelevant, cheese will be assimilated!Posts: 2275 | From: All the way from the land of Chocolate, Cheese and Cuckoo Clocks. | Registered: Feb 2000
| IP: Logged

posted January 22, 2009 15:45
Wow...I shudder to think of the productivity losses for the people who get forced from their Blackberries to iPhones!</flame>

--------------------There are three things you can be sure of in life: Death, taxes, and reading about fake illnesses online...Posts: 9332 | From: Westchester County, New York | Registered: May 2001
| IP: Logged

quote:Originally posted by dragonman97: Wow...I shudder to think of the productivity losses for the people who get forced from their Blackberries to iPhones!</flame>

So, which Alaskan weather station would you like to be running when I become Prez then Dragonman?

Oh, I don't want either one!

Still, trading a keyboard for a touchscreen is just a huge loss!

Take it from someone who has an iPod Touch! (/me hugs a vendor!)It's a fantastically innovative device, and you can do tons of things with it, but you can't do any one thing *really* well. Web browsing is *incredible* on it, but typing anything on it is just 'so so.' As such, for an /e-mail/ device, it's my opinion that the Blackberry pwns. If it's good enough for Barack Obama, it'd be good enough for me...if I wanted another electronic leash.

--------------------There are three things you can be sure of in life: Death, taxes, and reading about fake illnesses online...Posts: 9332 | From: Westchester County, New York | Registered: May 2001
| IP: Logged